This has been disturbing from the first, when Sean Bell, a young man literally hours away from his wedding ceremony in November, was gunned down by five cops who for some reason thought he was something other than a young man leaving a strip joint with friends on the eve of his wedding.
Apparently three cops have been indicted on charges of manslaughter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/nyregion/17grand.html?hp
This won't be official until Monday. But officials -- elected and appointed and self-appointed --have been encourgaging US to be cool, to chill, to not go mau-mauing no matter what the results.
OK. But let's also put ourselves in the shoes of cops on the beat in a bad neighborhood trying to make the nabe safe for all of US. This is not an easy issue, is it?
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It's gotta be tough on all sides, I agree, but I still feel more for Black males, like myself, who worry about an overreacting police officer.
Some civilians may have guns, but all cops do.
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